-economic variables. We show that fear of crime, criminal victimization and the average regionally perceived fear of crime significantly …Using information on life satisfaction and crime from the European Social Survey, we apply the life satisfaction … approach (LSA) to determine the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB), income, victimization experience, fear of …

The paper revisits the local determinants of crime using a spatial model distinguishing between resident and non … crime. Also the socio-economic background in terms of unemployment, poverty, and inequality proves significant for both … property and violent crime. Whereas local inequality only shows an effect on crime committed by resident offenders, crime …

The paper revisits the local determinants of crime using a spatial model distinguishing between resident and non … crime. Also the socio-economic background in terms of unemployment, poverty, and inequality proves significant for both … property and violent crime. Whereas local inequality only shows an effect on crime committed by resident offenders, crime …

intriguing facts that challenge some of the conventional crime hypotheses. For instance, in forty years homicides quadrupled by …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …

shown to perform extremely well. Furthermore, we implement the proposed framework to study crime recidivism in Quebec, a … implemented "tough-on-crime" policy of the Canadian government has been largely successful in reducing the probability of repeat … offenses in the post-policy period. Besides, our results support existing findings on crime recidivism and offer new insights …

Because of the difficulties of distinguishing friend and foe, security and insecurity, or even war and peace, terrorism … be used both to enhance security and to keep the faith with constitutional values …

tests on the effectiveness of police, public prosecution and courts. Using a unique dataset covering German states for the … diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …. -- Econometrics of crime ; evaluation of policy reforms ; panel econometrics …